Tony Sacco’s Coal Oven Kitchen may be right next door to Happy Joe’s in Eldridge. And they may be owned by the same company, Dynamic Restaurant Holdings, LLC, and have the same CEO and president in Tom Sacco. But the similarities end there for the two restaurants, Tom Sacco said. Tony Sacco’s opens its Eldridge restaurant at 350 East LeClaire Road beginning Dec. 14.

“It’s not a pizza place,” Sacco said of Tony Sacco’s (no relation). “We are looking at it as an adventure in Italian dining.” It does have pizza on the menu, he admits. “But it has all kinds of other Italian items as well.” Tony Sacco’s is more of a place for adults, Sacco said. “It's not almost (a place for adults),” he said. “It’s definitely. We have a kids menu. You can bring children in. It is not a place where they are not wanted.